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That seems like a lot of school for a city with a population of ~10,000.

Considering the kids will all be zooming their classes from their bedrooms it may be overkill.

i'm seeing that verona *does* have a new highschool that is being built/was built to open this week, but i'm not finding any of these photos or anything that looks as over-the-top as all this. where'd you find these?

OMG. Thanks for that. ;)

Wikipedia shows the school has just under 1600 students.
That's a lotta lot of school.

I'd assume it's a regional school not just for Verona.
The photographs were taken by john Hart for the State Journal.

If I learned anything from 80s movies, these giant campuses can only lead to lead to alienation and punk rock.

What, you didn't believe me?

no, i provided a link so people could, like, find it =P

Gosh, why didn't I think of that instead of going to all the trouble to bring it here. :smack:

also, the answer to the "why tf built a school that size for 1600 students" seems to be, per wikipedia:

Seems to me the enclosed Roman Colosseum, two pools, barbells and stationary bikes is an over reaction to a few athletes excelling in their chosen field.
That's fine except everyone pays no small price for it.
Goes along with the national preoccupation with anything to distract from doing something useful.

They redid my old high school a few years back. Not quite as impressive as that, but a lot more impressive than I expected.

Still only 1600 students. they could have 1600 athletics programs, but it wouldn't change the number of students.

oh, dont get me wrong, i agree it's stupid. but its a moderately wealthy seeming area as far as google tells me and i bet everyone in the Madison area who wants a kid to grow up and play for the Canucks or Rams is gonna try and move into this district if they aren't already. my guess is that this is an example of runaway sports spending, and then they had to throw in some other fancy stuff to justify the pools and stadia and weight room etc.... but hey, maybe the voters of the district really do want whats best for their kids? 180mil is a lotta dough to cough up, but,

It's also common for school districts to put extra money into the facilities of one campus, and then tell students at other campuses to go there. So for example, all the intramural swim meets between high schools might be held there. If there are neighboring school districts close by, it can even be profitable. One rich part of Austin incorporated into its own district, and then charged a rental fee for schools in the main city district to use their fancy theater, pool, etc. Our orchestra performed on their stage several times because the best our school could offer was a cafeteria.

Yes. Maybe they know something we don't know. When there was talk around here of a new tech park that would become the silicon valley of the east, there was a lot of speculative spending (widening the corridors and adding new lanes) When things didn't become quite as silicon valley-esque as was hoped there ended up being a lot of empty upscale shopping plazas, empty dry cleaners, high-end asian fusion restaurants, and McMansion ghettos.

This area used to be a barren paved area in the middle of the school, open in order to let light into the classrooms, but pretty uninviting at the bottom.


Now it's the grand entrance, plaza, and dining area.



https://live.staticflickr.com/4339/3...5b846035_c.jpg

Word on the street is much of that High School money is coming from Epic.

They had already kicked in for a new library and some other town projects.

One of our local High Schools has a single donor who does a lot.

https://www.pressconnects.com/story/...sold/78672528/

He fixed up the sports facilities but nothing as nuts as Verona. It turns out he went to Lil' Griff's college.